I love creative judgments. A Municipal Court judge in Cleveland ordered a 32 year old woman who "was caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children" to stand outside at a busy Cleveland intersection with a sign that read - “Only an idiot would drive on the [...]
Tag: safety
A 4,800 lb. force…
Two pregnant sisters were killed in a rollover accident in Eastern Montana on Friday morning. Icy conditions are believed to have played a role in the rollover. The sisters did not have their seat belts on and were thrown from the vehicle. The driver, their mother, had her seat belt on and is listed in [...]
What should we take away from Sandy?
Let's face it - the name Sandy will for many decades be a sour one for the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy's wrath. Yet even as we remember the devastation and the effect of Sandy on our lives, we will as a nation soon move on from the immediate horror of it. That [...]
Pull over people!
I am not a fan of distracted driving. It is dangerous. Taking one's attention of the road for even a few seconds can result in injury and death. I am against all distracted driving, but most of my focus has been on texting - until now. Now, based on information I recently learned I feel [...]
We may be easy, but we are not cheap.
I have expressed my concerns about the North Dakota oil patch before. My fear has been, and continues to be, that the North Dakota we know and love is for sale. There is no going back now though - the course has been set. The good news, if you can call it good news, is that [...]
Place more value on your life and the lives of others than on a text…
My blog entry today is an open letter to a young woman who was driving behind me for awhile today on my way back from the NDSU campus. She caught my eye originally while I was sitting at a stop light. The young woman (she looked to be about the age of a college student) had long [...]
Watch out for the wolves…
Last evening I was fortunate to be able to enjoy dinner with my colleagues Dave McEntire and Lee Newsome. At dinner we got to talking about folks who do really awful things to other folks - things like sexual assault, emotional abuse, injuries, and death. Sometimes the folks who do these things look, on the [...]
THE NEW FORTY 